Qiming 1158

Chapter 978 Is it true that farmers in the Ming Dynasty can eat three meals?
Wang Qi said a lot, talking and talking, and the expressions of Chen Kangbo and the three were very strange.

It sounds like there is a feeling that the Southern Song Dynasty does not know what is good or bad. It is obvious that they have tried their best, but they are still not satisfied.

Said that Chen Kangbo and others had embarrassed emotions and felt that they had become villains.

That's not enough, he's still saying.

"Da Ming is not as wealthy as the Southern Dynasty, and Your Majesty can't bear to watch people suffer and enjoy extravagant pleasures, let alone our officials. So Your Majesty set an example, and the food should be no different from the food here, at most four dishes and one soup.

His Majesty the Emperor leads by example, how can our officials disobey orders and enjoy extravagant pleasures without conscience?Oh...I'm not talking about the extravagance of the envoys of the Southern Dynasty, I mean...oh...if, if the envoys need it, we can do our best to arrange it, really! "

Wang Qi said a lot, and it seems that he noticed that what he said was not quite right until he arrived here, so he quickly rectified it, but the remedies were particularly clumsy, and it would be broken with a poke.

But this is enough to make Chen Kangbo's face turn red and white, holding his rice bowl, looking at the white rice in the bowl is very embarrassing.

Yu Yunwen and Lu You lowered their heads and ate quietly without saying a word.

After dinner, Chen Kangbo, who felt that he was publicly executed, didn't want the dessert after dinner [specially prepared for them], and went straight back to his room to rest, not wanting to do anything.

He is tired.

Yu Yunwen also rejected the dessert after dinner - mung bean cake, and went back to his room to rest.

Only Lu You accepted a mung bean cake, thanked Wang Qi, and went back to his room to rest.

Back in the room, Lu You sat in front of the desk, secretly took out the "Hongwu Politics" that he carried with him and started to read it.

Lying on the bed, Lu You remembered what Wang Qi had said, and remembered the most informative thing in this conversation that ordinary peasants in the Ming Dynasty could also have three meals a day, so he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

He kept thinking about why the Ming Dynasty could make the peasants eat three meals a day in such a state of financial difficulties, while the peasants in the Southern Song Dynasty...

One meal a day is enough.

If what Wang Qi said is true, then it proves that what Su Yonglin wrote in the book about his achievements in governing and governing the country is true. The content is also difficult to fake.

Lu You knew very well how difficult it was for ordinary farmers to have three meals a day. As the poem said, "A person who is covered in Luo Qi is not a silkworm breeder." In contrast, food that can be eaten People who are full of fat in their brains have never been farmers who are responsible for agricultural production.

Lu You still remembers the living conditions of the Southern Song civilians he saw when he was a teenager on a study tour and when he became an official.

He knew how hard life was, felt sympathy for them, and at one point thought that life itself was that hard.

Even if the court tried its best, it couldn't make everyone full, because it really couldn't be done, the land in the world could only produce so much food, it really couldn't feed everyone.

But when he saw Su Yonglin's book and heard what Wang Qi said, he was shaken.

If all of this is true, if the Ming Kingdom succeeds in feeding the peasants, and if the Ming Kingdom succeeds in making the world free from starvation, doesn’t it mean that the cognition he formed in the past is completely wrong?

Doesn't that mean that what happened to farmers in the Southern Song Dynasty was man-made and not predestined?
Is the land in the Southern Song Dynasty enough to feed every peasant?

If "the four seas have no free fields, the farmers still starve to death" is not destined by God, and it is not to explain that the land in China cannot support the Chinese, then why did the farmers in the Southern Song Dynasty die?

Is it really because the system of the Southern Song Dynasty is not good?

Is it really because of a man-made accident?
Can this reality be changed without changing the system?
Lu You was in a state of confusion. He felt that he was not sure what was right and what was wrong. After tossing and turning, he couldn't calm his mind, and he couldn't sleep at all. So he finally gave up falling asleep and chose to get up and take a walk outside in his clothes to relieve himself. Bad mood, so maybe you can fall asleep.

So he took a piece of mung bean cake that he hadn't finished eating, and while eating, he walked out of the room with his clothes on, went downstairs, walked out of the lobby of the station, and came to the courtyard.

The moonlight on this day was still good. Lu You looked up at the sky and saw the bright moonlight, and his thoughts gradually calmed down.

He feels that he can continue to watch the social situation of Ming Kingdom in the days to come, and use his own eyes to confirm what is true and what is false, and then confirm what he should do.

"Deputy Lu?"

Wang Qi's voice sounded from behind, Lu You turned his head a little unexpectedly, and saw Wang Qi, who was neatly dressed, standing behind him.

"Master Wang? Haven't you slept yet?"

"Oh, there are still some things to do. After some delay, I was about to wash my face, so I went to bed, and I have to get up early tomorrow to travel."

Wang Qi walked over to Lu You and asked, "Why hasn't Deputy Envoy Lu slept yet? Can't you sleep?"

Lu You hesitated for a while, then turned to look at the empty hall, and sighed.

"I'm really thinking about something. I think too much, I think too complicated, and I can't come up with an answer, so that my heart is numb, I toss and turn, and I can't sleep."

Wang Qi thought for a moment and had some thoughts on this.

"What is Vice-Envoy Lu thinking about? Can you tell me? I may not be able to answer your doubts, but if one more person knows, there will always be more possibilities for an answer."

Lu You pursed his lips, looked around again, and lowered his throat.

"Master Wang, is it true that you said that the peasants of the Ming Kingdom could eat three meals a day? I am very puzzled, why the peasants of the Ming Kingdom can eat three meals a day, but the peasants of the Song Dynasty cannot do this. a little.

I was once ordered to go out to Lin'an to run errands, and traveled all over the country. I saw farmers who couldn't eat in all parts of the Song Dynasty. Even in some places known as the land of fish and rice, similar situations would occur, but Daming did not? "

Wang Qi thought Lu You was going to ask something, but when he heard this, he suddenly burst into laughter.

Lu You didn't know why.

"Why is the boss laughing?"

"I... I have no ill will."

Wang Qi finished laughing, shook his head, and said, "I just didn't expect Deputy Ambassador Lu to ask me this question, this... I know that the farmers of the Southern Dynasty lived miserably, often starved to death, had no land, and became refugees. kind of thing we all know.

So you have doubts about whether there is such a situation in Daming, I can understand, but I have to explain that this is true. At present, except for a few remote areas in Daming, farmers in most areas can already eat for a day Three main meals, all food. "

"Is this...really true?"

Lu You was still a little unconvinced.

"Why do you think it's fake?"

Wang Qi shook his head and said: "Emperor Ming Dynasty reduced or exempted farmers' taxes. In addition to the normal agricultural tax, all extortionate and miscellaneous taxes have been abolished, such as the extortionate and miscellaneous taxes levied on agricultural tools, cattle, fertilizer, water, firewood, etc. in the previous dynasty, and even some In some places, miscellaneous taxes on kitchen knives, scissors, etc. used by farmers in daily life have also been abolished.

After these harsh and miscellaneous taxes were abolished, the burden on farmers was greatly reduced. Originally, when they received ten buckets of grain, they had to pay seven buckets of tax. belong to the farmers themselves. "

Lu You was deeply shocked.

"The taxation of the Northern Dynasty is so light? Seriously?"

"Da Ming founded the country, not to exploit and oppress the peasants as the foundation of the country. Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, it has relied on the peasants. Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor resolutely abolished the exorbitant taxes, reduced or exempted excessive agricultural taxes, and left most of the harvest to the peasants. This is the agricultural policy of the Ming Dynasty. the foundation of it.”

Wang Qi said: "In order to take care of farmers and facilitate farmers to pay taxes, His Majesty even promoted tax reform, turning the collection of physical objects into copper coins, exempting all transportation losses, and reducing the burden on farmers. With such a two-pronged approach, how can farmers be Can't get enough to eat?"

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PS: On the first day of the first lunar month, everyone has a happy new year, a happy new year, a happy family, full of beauty, Gong Xi Fa Cai~~~
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